" " =Speech

[ ]=Josh’s personal Thoughts

( )= Evans Personal Thoughts

{ }= Authors Notes

Chapter Four: Test Drive

Evan and Stef led the way in the pimping snowplough with Josh in hot pursuit. They had cleared most of highway 35 and 36 within a few hours and Evan had only scratched the paint on his plough. *Zombies die too easy. * Evan thought to himself as he pressed down the hydraulic trigger on his steering wheel, which in turn pressed the trigger on the machine gun welded to his door. Five rounds flew from the gun and impacted with a car containing zombies, one of the bullets hit the gas tank and the car exploded, within seconds Evan’s plough impacted with the shell of the car, shoving it to the side of the road. There was another car nearby but he couldn’t manoeuvre quick enough to destroy it as well. *Oh well, Josh will take care of that one. *

Josh smiled as he spotted a zombie-infested car that Evan hadn’t destroyed. He drove past it and pushed down one of the three hydraulic buttons on his steering wheel and his handheld grenade launcher that was currently strapped to the back fired off a round, it lobbed through the air and impacted with the targeted car.

BOOM!!!

The explosion rang clearly, but Evan’s speakers drowned it out. He changed the song to Bodies by Drowning Pool and smiled. *How fitting. * He thought as the trio continued to drive and clear the highway of zombies and cars containing zombies.

Later that day Evan and Stef sat around the 51" TV, the Resident Evil movie was playing on the PS2. Josh was on roof duty with Evan’s GMG and the explosions that occurred could barely be heard over the movie, which was hooked up to a hardcore system which Evan had previously stolen.

Stef’s arm had "mysteriously" landed around Evan and she was trying to pull him over but Evan just sat there and didn’t pay attention to her. He was too busy watching the Movie trying to pick up some ideas. Evan had already made a page or two of notes that he was going to show to Josh when he saw them. The movie ended and Evan stood up and looked at Stef.

"I think I’m gonna go talk to Josh, I’ll be right back, oh don’t think that I hate you or ignoring you Stef, I was just really into the movie." Evan said with a smirk

On the roof Josh was sitting on his makeshift chair made of books and drinking Chuppa (hot chocolate) when he saw yet another zombie feeding off another one *Man, don’t these guys have ANY manors? * Josh thought before he sent a grenade into the zombie’s head. Just then Evan came from the shadows.

"Nice Shot Man" He said while pulling out his notes.

"Thanks man, What’s that?" asked Josh

"There my notes I made while I was watching RE, I figure that in some point in time were gonna encounter lickers and Tyrants and last but not least Nemesis….or something like it. The good thing about this is that there are three of us so this won’t be like the game. The downside is that because this is not like the game we could possibly die after a hit or two from them." Evan explained.

"You have a good point, better make sure that we got a lot of ammo and some hardcore guns…unless we attack from our cars" Josh told Evan.

"Yep"

After their talk Josh and Evan went into the Library and sent Stef to the roof for guard duty.

"Ok, so I figure that there must be some sort of Umbrella-esque corporation out there that created this virus. I mean everything is just too similar. I’m going to need a copy of all of the Resident Evil games and a Gamecube… as well as the Resident Evil from that one… though we haven’t encountered any crimson heads, lickers, hunters, bandersnatches, tyrants, giant crocodiles, enlarged insects such as moths, spiders and not so enlarged but none the less annoying cockroaches… or those fucking crows. Damn I hate those things." Evan muttered the last bit with hatred and slammed his fist into the open palm of his other hand.

Josh blinked twice quickly. "Right…"

Evan nodded. "Anyway… we need medicinal marijuana."

Josh blinked again. "What?"

Evan smiled. "Oh poor naïve Josh. Truly you can’t have thought that they were eating the ‘herbs’ in Resident Evil? They had papes and everything. And why do you think that the lighter is such an important thing to get it’s own slot?" Evan said with great confidence.

Josh blinked some more. "Jill is a weed head?"

"I’m afraid it’s true." Evan said, nodding slowly.

Josh stared into empty space for a second and then snapped out of it. "Whoa."

Stef sat in the chair that Josh had left vacant, the GMG’s butt resting on the ground until it was needed. *Well, at least he doesn’t hate me. * She thought as she remembered her attempt to draw Evan closer during the movie. Stef leaned back and thought about her current crush. After her little day dream she checked the area in front of the library to notice that there was a small hoard of undead wandering around, some closing in on the library as if they were able to sense that there was fresh meat inside. *Evan’s going to want to know about this. * She said as she radioed down to the boys. "Small hoard out the front doors. They seem to be drawn to the library, it’s like they know we are here."

Evan plucked his radio off his belt on his kimono. "Ok… how did a small hoard of zombies sneak up on you? Last time I checked they moved like one mile an hour." He clicked off his radio and awaited the answer, looking over at Josh who was keeping in a laugh.

Stef smiled, acknowledging the verbal jab. "Yeah, but I was just basking in the sun all naked and sweaty and I guess I lost track of time." She said parrying Evan’s little assault.

Evan raised an eyebrow and walked over to Stef’s pillbox. He looked out of the view hole and sat down behind the gun. "I don’t know Stef. You don’t sound naked or sweaty." He said as he checked the ammo on the weapon.

"Yeah, but once I noticed the zombies I tossed my clothes on and wiped away the sweat. But I can resume being hot and sweaty later if you want." Stef said as she lined up one of the further zombies.

"Is that a threat?" Evan said as he pulled the trigger quickly, firing into the crowd.

"Oooh. That hurt Evan." Stef said as her grenade round impacted with the intended zombie’s chest, plastering the upper half of its body to the wall behind it.

"Yeah well. Pain for Pleasure as Sum 41 says." Evan said, aiming at head level and killing a few more zombies, leaving about six who were out of both Evan and Stef’s sight and currently banging on the glass doors of the library. "Josh." Evan said, his radio off. "Swords or guns?"

Josh smiled. "Any more than seven and we’ll use guns."

Evan and Josh walked into the area that divided the children’s and adult’s section of the library, from which they could clearly see the attacking zombies. "Around back?" Evan suggested. Josh nodded and the pair exited from the back door, swords drawn. "Give us cover around the back of the library." Evan radioed to Stef who grabbed an automatic rifle from the ‘shared pile’ on the roof. She made sure that there was ammo and rushed to the back of the roof and followed Evan and Josh’s movement to the front of the building.

The zombies continued to pound on the durable glass, though it was surely weakened now. A few more good pounds and they would have to board it up Evan guessed as Josh and himself lunged into the crowd, decapitating the nearest and getting the attention of the remaining undead.

Evan jumped right and motioned for Josh to go right. They did so, Josh drawing more of the zombies attention, one following Evan and three after Josh. Evan finished his quickly and flanked the three following Josh, who attacked at the same time Evan did, both of their sword plunging through the three zombies simultaneously. "PULL UP!!" Evan screamed as the front zombie attempted to reach for Josh’s neck. The Josh yanked upwards while Evan pulled down, splitting the trio of attacking monsters in two pieces. The blood spurted everywhere, covering Josh and splattering on Evan’s kimono.

"Son of a BITCH!!" Evan yelled as he noticed the mess on the front of his Japanese clothing, neglecting the fact that Josh was smothered in gore.

Josh blinked and wiped some of the blood off his face. "Shut up Evan." He said calmly as he walked inside.

Evan looked at the retreating boy. "What?" He questioned, but Josh ignored him. "Oh well." He said as he followed suit.

Evan got a happy reception from Stef who had ignored Josh when he had walked in. "Your getting really good with a sword Evan!" She exclaimed as she leapt on him and glomped him in a way Evan had only thought possible in an anime. Evan toppled backwards and soon found himself on the floor with Stef, smiling, on top of him. "Shall I execute my threat?"

Evan blushed, remembering their little conversation. "Umm… ahh…" Stef smiled some more and started to take off her shirt. "Uhh… " Evan protested as the girl tossed her shirt to the side and planted a kiss on Evan’s surprised lips. Much to his own surprise, he didn’t fight it and soon found himself kissing back. The pair rolled over to Evan’s bed, which happened to be closest, and where soon under the covers.

Evan awoke four hours later, he felt great which was surprising considering the circumstances he was in. He rolled over and found, even more surprising to himself, that Stef was there… naked… "Oh… my… god…"

Stef blinked at the sound of Evan’s voice and woke up. "Uhh…" She moaned. "Hi Evan. That was great. Don’t you think?"

Evan nodded as Stef pressed herself close to Evan, who once again didn’t fight it for reasons unknown to him. "Yeah…" He started. "It was…"

Stef pushed herself back slowly, giving Evan a good view, when he appeared to be shocked she pulled the covers around her tighter. "What is it Evan? You sound shocked."

Evan stuttered for a second. "I-I… Umm… Y-Yeah… I guess I am…"

Stef smiled reassuringly. "It’s Ok" She said calmly, to calmly for Evan’s current liking. "I know that it is up to me to choose a ‘mate’, If you want to use that derogatory term." She paused for a second. "I choose you."

"I feel like a Pokemon…" Evan said, saying what he was thinking.

Stef laughed. "I know that didn’t sound good, but I really do want to be with you Evan. I know that you just lost your girlfriend to all this shit that we are stuck in. But you have to move on, now faster than ever."

Evan nodded grimly, his face still bearing a look of utter confusion and surprise.

Stef giggled and planted a light kiss on Evan’s cheek. "Don’t worry about anything. I’ll take care of you." She said with a smile.

Evan smiled back, accepting his current situation. *She is cute… and smart… * He thought as Stef reached for Evan’s… nether regions. Evan recoiled quickly, jumping back and out of the bed.

Stef smiled and looked over his naked body. "What? You didn’t argue last night."

Evan smiled and got back into bed slowly, then gave himself to pleasure.

Josh smiled as he jabbed at the buttons on his controller, for he was Bruce Lee. Moreover, through this simple X-box controller he was kicking ass. *This game rules!! * Josh thought as he laid the smack down on some helpless sap. Just then he heard a cry from the adult section. "What the hell?" He asked himself as he hit the pause button. He had changed his clothes, and was currently wearing Evan’s Vegeta shirt out of spite for Stef not greeting him. He picked up his broad sword and crept into the adult section. He heard moans from where Evan’s bed was and slowly crept up to that spot. His sword dropped and so did his jaw. "Evan?" He asked timidly.

Evan rolled off of Stef and covered himself with the Powerpuff girl blanket, Stef did the same as she huddled closer to Evan, pressing her back against his chest. "Um… ahhh…." Evan countered as Josh looked away.

"Ok… I’m going to leave now."

Evan nodded. "Good idea."

The next day Evan and Stef piled into the pimping snowplough. Evan seemed to be over the initial shock of what he and Stef had done. Besides, he felt great, forty or so times more relaxed than before. Stef looked over at Evan and smiled. "Where are we going?" She asked.

"Peterborough. I want to stop by the Bento Box and then Jeff’s cards and comics, I need anime." Evan said without emotion.

Stef shrugged. "They better have Gundam." She griped.

Evan nodded. "Hopefully something other than Wing too. I want the old stuff. That stuff kicked ass!" Evan said, this time with emotion.

Stef smiled. "It’s true. Anyway, I think they had the whole Ranma series there."

Evan’s eyes flashed open. "YOUR RIGHT!!!" He screamed excitedly. "LET’S GO!!" Evan picked his radio off of his belt and clicked it on. "Josh. Hurry. RANMA!!!"

Josh hopped into his hummer and smiled. He clicked on his radio and spoke into it. "Yeah, Jeff’s had the whole Ranma series on VHS."

Evan smiled as Josh backed into a wall with his hummer, offsetting his grenade launcher. "Umm… oops." He spoke into the radio as he changed it into drive and took off to Peterborough, Evan following at a slightly slower pace. Josh jammed the accelerator to the floor. They had cleared most of the way to Peterborough so it was smooth sailing until they got into the city.

"Bastard and his fast car." Evan griped as he hit 123 miles per hour which was near the max on his beastly pimping snowplough. He looked over at Stef and smiled. She smiled back. *Fair trade I suppose, he gets a nice car and I get the girl. I’m happy. I just hope that Josh is so that he doesn’t do something dumb… or try to one up me. * Evan thought as Stef kissed him on the cheek. Evan put a Good Charlotte CD in a let it play until they reached Peterborough.

Peterborough was trashed. Apparently they had been warned first as it appeared to have been victimized by riots. Evan smiled as he approached Josh’s Hummer. The road was blocked off by would be escaping cars. It seemed that they didn’t quite make it. Evan smirked as Josh gave him the right of way and the pimping snowplough set to work. Within an hour, Evan had cleared the way to Jeff’s. Josh got out of his Hummer quickly, his intentions known to Evan. He was going to get the Ranma series first. Evan didn’t really care, *let him have his small victory. All this means is that he has to clean out the store of zombies. *

Stef put her hand on Evan’s that was loosely gripping the chain link wheel. "He’s going for Ranma you know?"

Evan nodded grimly. "I’ll let him have this one. He’s earned it I think."

Stef smiled. "For seeing us?"

Evan nodded. "This should ease the pain for him." Evan turned to Stef and brought her hand down and took a firm grip on it. "I’m sorry for anything I’ve done before to hurt you. I was scared that I might be betraying my late girlfriend."

Stef nodded and kissed Evan’s hand lightly. "And I know that I’ll never replace her. But I want to at least try."

Evan nodded once in reply, thinking back his now gone girlfriend and his little romp through the zombie filled hellhole called Cambridge. "Well, you’ve got your chance."

Stef smiled softly and gripped Evan’s hand tighter. "I’ll try not to mess up then."

Evan forced a weak smile. "Alright. Now let’s go give Josh a hand in there, surely he must not be able to carry all of the comics and anime." Evan said, his voice getting stronger and his smiled becoming more and more firm as he attempted to push the Cambridge memories to the back of his head.

Stef leaned towards him and kissed him deeply, once she broke it off she took her Magnum from its holster. "Lock and load." She said, with false bravado ringing in her voice.

Evan nodded and drew his Beretta. He removed the current clip, even though it was full, and slapped in another as the pair walked into the deserted Cards and Comic shop.

Inside Josh had seen no zombies. He currently stood in front of the anime section and stared despairingly at the lock. He looked up when Evan and Stef walked in. "It’s clear!" Josh called out.

Evan and Stef approached Josh and started to stare in the general direction of where Josh was staring. "So… whatcha staring at?" Evan asked.

Josh frowned. "I need a key to open this anime shelf… it’s glass and I can’t pick the lock."

Evan looked in awe at Josh. "You really do play to much Resident Evil don’t you?"

Josh shook his head. "I prefer to watch that game. Though I have played."

Evan nodded and holstered his Beretta. He took his Benelli and flipped it around so that the butt end was facing the glass and gave it a good heave. The glass shattered on impact and Evan reached in and grabbed the Gasaraki box set and a few Street Fighter anime DVDs, leaving Ranma to Josh. "You don’t need a key when you have a shotgun." He said as he went up to the counter and peeked over. Finding no zombies he reached over and grabbed a bag, in which he shoved the anime he had wanted. He then made his way over to the CCG area of the store and cleared out the Warhammer and grabbed a box set of Apocalypse and Invasion Magic sets. He then picked up the pre-made deck box from Judgement and walked out of the store to put it into the back of the pimping snowplough. He almost dropped the bag when he noticed what was coming their way.

A wave of putrid flesh seethed towards Evan, it reminded him of his first big battle against the undead hoards in front of the pile of rubble that was once 7-11. He cocked his shotgun and called out to his friends. "HOARD OF ZOMBIES!! BRING GUNS!!"

He rushed to his snowplough and opened the door, tossing in the bag he started the engine and backed the plough into the hoard, making an indent in what appeared to be the population of Peterborough. *Shit. Shit. Shit. * Evan thought frantically as he swung the plough into drive and did a 180 degree spinout as he jammed down the hydraulic button on his side mounted machine gun. The rounds fed through easily and zombie after zombie was cut down in a straight line. But much to Evan’s surprise they didn’t stop to feed on the fallen, the continued towards him neglecting a potential meal for something that looked better. *Oh shit. * Evan thought as he continued to fire the machine gun until the first chain ran out. The second chain of ammo jammed, his speed loader had failed him. He had built the damn thing for exactly this kind of situation and it failed him. *Murphy’s law I guess. * He thought as he put his Benelli out the window and fired of a round, killing a good amount of zombies, but not hardly enough.

Josh and Stef took two steps out the door before Evan’s yelling had clicked in. Josh fumbled with the entire series of Ranma on VHS and finally put the box down and drew his MSG90. He started sniping but after one clip he decided it was too slow and followed Evan’s lead by taking out his own Benelli to fight his way to the Hummer. Stef made a dash for the snowplough, firing her Magnum into the crowd. When she finally got into the plough Evan had just rolled up his window to reload his shotgun. He looked over at her and smiled nervously. She did the same and rolled down her window to begin firing on the crowd. "there are to many." She said, fear in her voice.

Evan nodded and stepped on the gas, motioning Stef to grab the radio from his belt as he ploughed through the zombie hoards to find a safer place or at least a good vantage point. Stef picked up the radio and tested it. "Josh? Josh do you read?"

Josh hit the auto window button on his door. "Loud and clear Stef. What’s up?"

Stef smiled as Evan continued to run down zombies. "Other than the fact that we are surrounded by zombies, not much. We’re moving out. We can come back for Ranma in a bit, we just want to let this crowd of zombies disperse."

"Roger."

Stef put the radio back on Evan’s belt as he neared the end of the hoard. Once he had broken through he spotted a straggling zombie, he smiled as he deliberately swerved to hit it. ‘Have a nice day’ and a large yellow happy face with smatterings of gore was the last thing it saw.

Josh grimaced as he pressed down the hydraulic triggers on his dual machine guns, his bullets tearing flesh from the hoard and putting gaping holes in many a head. He drove over the bodies with surprising ease, the decaying bones snapping like dry twigs under the wheels of the Hummer. He too made it out safely, not a scratch to show for it, for even a scratch, if the movie held true, was enough to turn you into one of the hoard. Josh sighed as he noticed Evan pulling into the Galaxy theatre. *Is he going to watch movies at a time like this? * Josh thought as he parked the Hummer just behind Evan’s snowplough. Evan rolled down the window and hoisted himself up and began to fiddle with his speedloader that was attached to the roof. He popped the top of the loader with his wakasachi, which was nothing more than a reel that was the right size for the ammo in a box but it did the trick. Or should have. Evan fiddled around for a minute and pushed out a fresh string of ammo for the HK23E. He loaded it in and checked the next string, he made sure that it was properly attached to the first string and then he closed the box, sealing it with a quick rap of the hilt of his wakasachi. He then slipped back into the vehicle and rolled the window back up. His door opened at the same time as Stef’s and the pair got out. Evan motioned for Josh to follow. He did so, hoisting his shotgun over his shoulder and drawing his dual 9mm. Evan and Stef entered the theatre first, Evan making his way to the snack counter. He peered over the counter and found no zombies. The place was surprisingly empty. *All the better. * Evan thought as he flicked on the popcorn machine and then the hot butter machine. The Trio went there separate ways, only Evan and Stef both went to see Red Dragon and Josh went to see Jackass.

Evan and Stef found their movie empty even after Evan went in and shot off in random directions. Evan went up to the projection room and looked around for an instruction manual. To his surprise he didn’t find one. *What the hell? In RE they give you one. DAMN YOU CRUEL MOVIE THEATHER* Evan yelled in his mind. Evan looked at the projection thingy and found a big red button "ON" was written on it. "hmmm I wonder what would happen if I pushed this button?" Evan said sarcastically. Evan pushed it and the movie started, Evan walked back to where Stef was sitting with the food, and he sat down. Evan yawned and put his arm around Stef.

"Smooth Evan, real smooth" Stef said jokingly

"Well I thought so" Evan replied.

Meanwhile Josh found his movie with 3 or 4 dead people, for some reason only dead people sat in their chairs. *Let me guess, there gonna come to life when I’m not expecting it* Josh thought. He worked his way to the projection room and quickly spotted the big red button, Josh pushed it and ran back to his seat. Half way into the movie the dead began to move around. *Who didn’t see this coming?* Josh thought in his mind. With that thought, Josh broke out his duel pistols and pointed them at a random zombie.

"Hey, DOWN IN FRONT!" Josh yelled as he began shooting the zombies one by one.

After the thirty seconds of shooting Josh reached up and hit rewind on the move then play. "Ok, Let’s see what I missed" Said Josh as he sat back down and enjoyed the movie.

Back in Red Dragon Evan and Stef were making out through out the entire movie and when the end credits came up Evan had an angry look on his face.

"Damn it! This is the Second time I have missed this movie" Evan yelled at the movie screen.

"Sorry Evan, I didn’t mean to…" Stef began to say

"Its ok Stef we can always rewind the movie and watch it again" Evan cut in

"Umm why don’t you watch it this time, I think I’m gonna see what Josh is up to. I think that his movie is over and if I’m right he’s probably at the arcade. So I’ll see you in a bit" Stef said with a smile and left.

"Talk to you later" Evan yelled and started the move for the third time.

Josh was at the arcade playing "House Of The Dead 2" when he heard footsteps, he turned around and had his guns pointed at Stef. "Oops my bad" Josh said while putting the guns away.

"Its ok, do you mind if I play? Stef asked

"Sure"

The pair began playing HOTD2 when Josh turned to Stef.

"Hey Stef, why don’t we ever like hang out and stuff I mean we say hi to each other the odd time but we never really do anything. I mean you’re a cool person and since we are the last people alive that we know about, it would make sense that, you know, we all got to know each other." Said Josh in one of his rare serious moods.

"I don’t know Josh, I mean you’re a cool guy it’s just that I really like Evan so I have been putting my attention to him. I’m sorry if I have made you feel bad and I promise that I will work on spending time with both of you. Just that you have to know that me and Evan are like an item now so…well you know" Answered Stef.

"Yeah I know. So you wanna ride in the back of my hummer to work the grenade launcher?" Josh asked

"No Josh"

"Damn."

Soon after the little chat Evan walked out of the Red Dragon theatre. "THAT MOVIE KICKED ASS!!!" He yelled excitedly. "But I preferred my second viewing of the movie." He said, winking at Stef.

"But when we watched… oh. Yeah, me too." Stef said, getting over the confusion that had stricken her after Evan’s comment.

Josh frowned. "Yeah… anyway, who wants to play some video games?"

Evan smiled. "Hell yeah!" He walked up behind Stef and wrapped his arms around her small waist. "But first." He said, his smile growing. He kissed Stef on the back of her neck and slowly kissed his way around to her lips. Josh turned back to House of the Dead 2 and attempted to ignore the teens as they made out like… well, teens. After the pair stopped Evan pulled up the second player gun and kicked open the coin slot, after placing the correct amount of coins in the machine he began helping Josh kick undead ass in digital life.

Stef had moved over to the Jurassic Park shooter and was quite far in it when Evan and Josh finished their gaming session. Josh was walking over to the exit when Evan stopped him.

"Josh, where are you going?" he asked.

"Well for starters, I can’t stand you guys making out. That and I want my Ranma ½ so I’m going to get it" Josh answered.

Josh went into the elevator and was met by Evan and Stef who were waiting with guns in hand. They motioned to Josh that they were coming with him. The trio went into there vehicles and took off into the early morning sunrise. When the trio came back to Jeff’s Cards and Comic’s they found only the zombies they had killed earlier still in tact. *Odd, I wonder why they didn’t eat them* Evan thought. Josh ran over to where he had dropped Ranma ½ and picked it up and gave it a hug.

"YAY! I’m so happy, why are we still here let’s get back to Lindsay….errr ummmm one sec ok?" Josh said while running back into the Comic store.

Josh came back with The Bubble Gum Crisis and the entire Guyver manga series. *Evan’s really gonna like this* Josh thought as he went back into the Hummer.

The trio decided to take the long way home so that Evan could use his pimpin snowplough and the trio enjoyed running over the zombies. While Evan was killin stuff that was supposed to be dead he looked at one of the factories and saw an Umbrella logo. Evan radioed to Josh and told him what he saw and when they got back to Lindsay they decided to get more ammo and go to the factory the next day.

"Ok, so Josh, you run down the doors with your hummer and fire some Grenade rounds into the hall way while I fire some rounds into the upper levers, That should help. Then we will all meet up at the hummer an proceed in." Explained Evan. "Got that?"

"Yeah"

"Yep"

The remainder of the day was spent collecting ammo and extra guns from H&K. At night the trio went into Friendly’s and had all you can eat buffet. Afterwhich they went back to the base and started to watch Ranma ½. Evan saw Josh’s eyes get bigger and he could tell that Josh was excited. Evan took Guyver back to his room and left Stef

Evan flipped through the first issue of Guyver and tossed it to the side. He was feeling rather depressed at the moment and was contemplating Josh’s comment back at the Galaxy. *Josh must be pretty hardcore Jealous. I mean, I am going out with the only living girl in an unknown amount of area. But someday he will get a girl… I mean somebody else must have survived… hopefully. * Evan flopped out on his bed and smiled when he noticed the mess that he and Stef had made of the area surrounding his sleeping quarters. *She is a great girl. * Evan thought, mentally changing the topic. *I’m so lucky to have her… though she is the cause of the tension between me and Josh… * Evan rolled over and grabbed the second issue of Guyver. He read through it slower, though he already knew the majority of the first part of Guyver due to the animes he had rented from Blockbuster.

Stef walked up to the bed that Evan and her had been sharing for the past little while. "Baby?" She asked. "What’s up with Josh?"

Evan looked up at Stef and smiled weakly. "I think my biznoochie is jealous. I mean, there is no other girls that he can get with in the area… unless he resorts to necrophilia… and I don’t want that for him. He’s to good a person."

Stef nodded and crawled onto the bed and hogged all the covers to herself. "Yeah, Josh is a good guy, but soon enough we will find another survivor and then Josh will have his chance… if it’s a girl…"

"I guess." Evan said smiling as he pulled some covers from Stef. "Maybe we will even find somebody in tomorrows raid on the Umbrella factory."

Stef smiled sultrily. "Maybe… but until then let’s worry about us… and what we are about to do now."

Evan smiled. "Deal."

Josh was about three tapes into the Ranma series when he eventually succumbed to sleep. He woke up groggy the next morning with a view of Evan holding a cup of coffee. It was a Tim Horton’s mug and the aroma along woke Josh up fully. "Coffee?" Evan offered, handing Josh the mug, who didn’t refuse.

"What’s in it?" Josh questioned, wiping the sleep from his eyes with his free hand.

"One cream, one sugar." Evan said, reaching behind him and producing his own mug.

Josh’s eyes bugged out. "HOW DID YOU GET A POCKET UNIVERSE!!?"

Evan looked at Josh strangely and then it clicked. "Oh… the getting the mug from supposedly nowhere. I had set it behind me… on the floor… and then I got it…"

Josh calmed down and took a sip of coffee while Evan pulled out his last Captain Black’s cigar and lit up. He took a puff and then a sip of coffee. "So what’s up this morning?" Josh asked, forgetting about today’s raid on Umbrella.

"Raiding a major pharmaceuticals company in hopes of uncovering a government conspiracy about a week or two to late… and maybe get some medical supplies just in case." Evan said, taking another puff of his cigar.

Josh nodded. "Right… how could I forget."

"Anyway, how was Ranma?"

"Got maybe three or so tapes in before I hit the hay. How about you and Stef? How did you sleep?" Josh asked, trying to make it seem as though he didn’t care about his friend’s relationship with the last known female on Earth.

"Good." Evan replied calmly.

"Good." Josh said, rolling out of bed and slipping on his army gear. "So when are we going?"

"Pretty soon. We just have to make sure that the speed loaders are working and that we are as loaded up with ammo as we can be. By the way, don’t bring all your guns, just the most powerful ones, or the ones you have the most ammo for."

Josh nodded and walked over to his ammo pile and started to sort out his guns and the ammo types. Evan walked back into the Adult section and started to do the same, Stef was currently munching down on a bagel and drinking coffee while having her morning smoke. "Hey babe." She said as Evan wandered over to his ammo pile. "Ready to raid a major pharmaceutical company?"

Evan nodded and smiled as he set aside his PSG1 and Ingrams as well as ammo for both of them. "What are you bringing?"

Stef smiled and patted the magnum holster hanging from her left hip. "This puppy and two submachine guns."

Evan nodded some more as he set aside his MP5s and a bunch of ammo for them. "That should do it for me… no… wait…" He said as he picked his 9mm that had been given to him by Snake before he died. "This comes with me too."

Stef smiled. "Want to relax a bit before going… if you catch my drift?"

Evan smiled and the pair walked hand in hand to Evan’s bed.

End of Chapter four.

Author’s notes:

(Yeah. I score!!! It had to happen though… story progression and all. Anyway, Josh was in real life pissed off that I got the girl. But come on! I created the damn character for that reason! Sexual tension is great in any story! Josh (In story and out) is mad cause I get the girl and all he got was a Hummer (Which I out did by pimping up my snowplough), so he may or may not do something really dumb! But I don’t even know what he will do if he does anything at all! That is the beauty of writing with another person. Anyway, my Fanfic haven site is down cause tripod blows ass and I need to get a new server and I could probably use my l33t HTML skills… which I am currently learning… to pimp up the site like I did my snowplough. Anyway, later days!)

His web site is currently down cause tripod sucks!!… Even though a tripod page is hosting this fic…

[Yeah, I was kinda pissed about it but don’t worry folks I’m not gonna do anything dumb there MIGHT be a hot chick at umbrella who knows? Oh yes, Evan’s pimpin snowplough kicks ass *cough*not*cough* yeah well tune in next tomorrow same TUP time same TUP channel]